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We had the hunters are terrible people thread here before.
I hunt and have spent a week in the field so far bowhunting. No luck although I had two does within 30 yards of me Friday evening. It was just too dark to get a good shot. I have seen coyotes, raccoons, squirrels and dozens of others species of critters and birds.

This weekend is / was our youth hunt where anyone under 16 can hunt with a gun if accompanied by their parent, no adults can gun hunt. I have not heard if they had any success of not.

Our lease is managed by a wildlife biologist and he has stated that we have too many deer and he has asked us to harvest 10 additional does beyond what we would normally take.

Texas has ranches that manage deer to get big racks and occasionally big bodies. Ohio's is just one of those states that produces monster deer due to the climate, food sources and hunting regulations. I will be there for my annual deer hunting ritual the week after Thanksgiving.:biggrin:

Good Hunting and be safe.
 
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Buckeye Maniac;646566; said:
Animal populations work themselves out without human interference. There is no reason what so ever to hunt in this day and age.
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That was my point. They work themselves out by dying of starvation. Starvation is by no means humane. It is horrid way to die.
 
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A primary reason for starting a thread like this is to flush quotes like the following out into the open so you can fire away:

Animal populations work themselves out without human interference. There is no reason what so ever to hunt in this day and age.
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Just a way of getting a jump on the season if you ask me.
 
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Buckeye Maniac;646815; said:
I've never lived in the city. I have lived in the suburbs all my life, I do hate them though.
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City, suburbs-you have obviously never lived in the country-or seen what can happen to a car when a deer jumps through the windshield. As far as I am concerned, deer are overgrown rats-but they have the Bambi thing going so people whose idea of nature is the produce aisle at Wild Grain market get all weepy eyes over them. End of rant. I don't deer hunt b/c I don't want to gut the thing. Pheasant hunting is fun,tho.....
 
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hunting is good. It provides food, clears out your lungs, and cleanses your spirit. I like muskrat and venison.
Check out this article;
http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/recreation/2006/10/29/ddn102906buck.html
ARCANUM ? Justin Metzner saw the buck he wanted, took his shot and made the kill.
"I knew it was a big one, but I didn't know how big until after I'd hit it," Metzner said. "When I got down from my tree stand and took a look at it, I was really surprised."
Metzner, 28, found out the next day the buck's rack is one of the largest ever taken in Ohio, a "typical" rack that green-scored at 196 7/8. Typical means it has the same number of points on both sides.

This buck, which weighed about 250 pounds, had 13 points, but five on each side that could be scored. If that number holds up, it will be Ohio's third largest typical ever.
"This will be one of the largest typicals taken by bow in the country this year," said Rick Busse, a Piqua taxidermist who, along with Randy Clark of Buckeye Big Bucks, green-scored the antlers. "It's striking in appearance. The tine lengths are unusually long."
The Arcanum hunter killed his buck with a compound bow on Oct. 21 at about 7 p.m. on public land in Adams County. It's the second huge buck taken in Adams County this year. On Sept. 30, Jonathon Schmucker of Seaman killed a 33-point "non-typical" that green-scored at 294 7/8.
"What are the odds there would be a world-class typical and a world class non-typical taken from the same county in one year?" Busse asked.
 
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I'm all for hunting, as long as the person actually uses the meat for food ect. I used to hunt quite a bit growing up. The reason that I got out of it is because of the Sunday warriors who would go buy a hunting license, an orange vest.....and away they went. Quite frankly, these people scared the hell out of me, and are a major contributor to hunting casualties annually. I took a hunting safety course when I was a kid, quite frankly I think that anyone who hunts should be required to do the same.

I have no problem with hunting, it provides food and population control. I do have a problem with the people who don't know what the fuck their doing though. Sadly, I'd wager that there are more people like that out there than people who are safe hunters. That is flat out scary.
 
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Daddy
I used to call those folks Kmart hunters.
In almost every state you have to pass a hunting safety course now. I took one that was required of bowhunters to hunt on federal lands. Hunting fatalities are way down. I think more people are killed by deer-car wrecks in Ohio than in hunting accidents.
90%+ of the people I meet that are hunters are great people, but you are correct, a few bad apples ruin it for everyone. That is no different in hunting than in sports fans or parents of youth athletes.
 
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I don't hunt anymore. So here is a pic for the hunters to enjoy.
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stxbuck;646925; said:
City, suburbs-you have obviously never lived in the country-or seen what can happen to a car when a deer jumps through the windshield. As far as I am concerned, deer are overgrown rats-but they have the Bambi thing going so people whose idea of nature is the produce aisle at Wild Grain market get all weepy eyes over them. End of rant. I don't deer hunt b/c I don't want to gut the thing. Pheasant hunting is fun,tho.....
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I have seen what happens when A deer jumps through a windshield, I saw it on my way to school last year, the deer survived and looked fine when I went by, but the cops shot it to "put it out of its misery".

And the Bambi thing that you mentioned doesn't mean anything to me, I don't approve of killing any animals like that.
 
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Buckeye Maniac;647053; said:
I have seen what happens when A deer jumps through a windshield, I saw it on my way to school last year, the deer survived and looked fine when I went by, but the cops shot it to "put it out of its misery".

And the Bambi thing that you mentioned doesn't mean anything to me, I don't approve of killing any animals like that.
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Also remember that they taste better after being shot than as roadkill
 
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